"Judas and the Black Messiah" was a wonderful, uncompromising view into the radical black politics of the 1960s. As I was watching it I couldn't help but compare it to the weak-sauce Sorkin film "The Trial of the Chicago 7" which Sorkin ends by having the government prosecution stand up and clap for the defendants (lol); compare this to the brutal assassination of Fred Hampton by the FBI and CPD. Also compelling was Martin Sheen's heel-turn as a particularly slimy J. Edgar Hoover, given how America knows him as Sorkin's inspirational speech-giving president from the West Wing.
I saw Tenet this year. Great movie, though very confusing in ways I can't say without spoiling it. I really enjoy Christopher Nolan's work and I think this may be one of his best (though it's hard to choose).
Colectiv and Gunda.<p>Before Colectiv I knew from first hand experience the shocking amount of corruption in Romanian healthcare, but this was another level. And the movie helped.<p>Gunda was the most beautiful and most shocking movie of the year. Far more powerful than Smith's "Meat is Murder". I had no idea.
All things considered: "Come True"<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7026488/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7026488/</a><p>Small budget, the man who wrote it, directed it and scored most of it... reminds me of John Carpenter.<p>Great acting as well... was very impressed.